Western Pacific Truck School Modesto, CA

Any idea's on who you'll be Running with once you'er done with Training?


Myself,ill take what i can get and do my best and then go from there.

 

I have dreams of DOT foods or Gordon (GTI), but right now neither seem to be hiring. So, I am going to be looking at prob. Werner. Kinda wish JB Hunt was hiring in our area for newbs, cause of the terminal in Stockton.

 

Friday was a soggy day. Stockton needed one of our trucks, & the mechanic didn't fix the brake chamber on the other one we broke. So, I got the pleasure of fighting with an old Volvo that turned sharper to the left than right, clutch stuck about 15 inches out farther than the gas & brake, everything inside rattles, & could not see the rear dualls in ANY of the mirrors. So I fought that dammed thing in my AM class around the yard. More alley docking, & Paralell parking as well as now a measured right hand turn (need to make a 90 degree right hand turn & get the trailer within 18 inches of the curb or cone).....so needless to say I hit my 1st cone....& then about a dozen more. I got pretty good with the truck by the end, but I really do dislike that thing.

Evening class we got one of our other trucks back, & I was a happy camper...though I only made about 1 in 4 alley docks the 1st time, but never needed more than 1 pull up. I figured out what I was doing wrong with the paralell parking, & now get it pretty darned good. Also it started raining pretty good, & using a wet mirror added to the dificulty for me, especially being at night time....possibly why I was having a harder time alley docking. I got a compliment from my instructoer, who told another one that if I had my pretrip a little better, I could pass the DMV test. Made me feel pretty good.

 

are there certain companies that hire though this school?

 

Werner, DOT foods (when they are hiring), Gordon (when they are hiring), Stevens, Covenant, TWT....least those all have posters up

 

are any of them hiring

 

Well IMO, Driving for any Company these Day's would be a good thing.
You seem like a smart Guy, im sure you'll do fine.

 

Werner, & Stevens are for shure.

 

im going to the campus in stockton right now, gordon called me and said they would get me to orientation, then 5 minutes later said oops sorry we didnt see u had a 15 mph speeding ticket(which im fighting right now), so they must be hiring, stevens hasnt called me back yet, werner wont take me, so im wondering if i even bother with covenant

 

Waltkins & sheppard hires from tham also, & they have a terminal in Modesto.